The Ancient Art Of Growing Old

Author : Marie De Hennezel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101567023
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Growing Old written by Marie De Hennezel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking approach to aging from one of France's best- known clinical psychologists. How should we accept growing old? It's an inevitable progression and yet in Western society the very subject of aging is often taboo and shrouded in anxiety and shame. Not anymore, says Marie de Hennezel, an internationally renowned clinical psychologist and bestselling author. Now that our lives are longer and richer than ever before, it's imperative to demystify our greatest fear and cultivate a positive awareness of aging. In this timely and essential book, de Hennezel offers a fresh perspective on the art of growing old. She confronts head-on the inevitable grief we sustain at the loss of our youth and explains how refusing to age and move forward in life is actually what makes us become old. Combining personal anecdotes with psychological theory, philosophy, and eye-opening scientific research from around the world, she shows why we should look forward to embracing everything aging has to offer in terms of human and spiritual enrichment. The Art of Growing Old is a thought-provoking, brave, and uplifting meditation on the later years as they should be lived.

Author : Tom Payne
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099573180
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Art of Growing Old written by Tom Payne and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bette Davis said Old age ain't no place for sissies'. If that's true, we could all use a little help as we approach our twilight years. Translator Tom Payne turns to Ovid, Seneca, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aristophanes to discover invigorating counsel on mental decline, medicine, late love affairs, death and legacy. This lively tour of ancient attitudes to ageing, supplemented by a translation of Cicero's On Old Age', reveals the true art of growing old gracefully."

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691167702
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Grow Old written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless wisdom on growing old gracefully from one of ancient Rome's greatest philosophers Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all—and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was. Filled with timeless wisdom and practical guidance, Cicero's brief, charming classic—written in 44 BC and originally titled On Old Age—has delighted and inspired readers, from Saint Augustine to Thomas Jefferson, for more than two thousand years. Presented here in a lively new translation with an informative new introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, the book directly addresses the greatest fears of growing older and persuasively argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated—or altogether mistaken. Montaigne said Cicero's book "gives one an appetite for growing old." The American founding father John Adams read it repeatedly in his later years. And today its lessons are more relevant than ever in a world obsessed with the futile pursuit of youth.

Author : Nicholas Delbanco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609416966
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lastingness written by Nicholas Delbanco and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country's leading literary scholars, explores the fascinating question of why some people's creative talents flourish with age while others' fade. America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. And if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals, and presidents to have reached a certain age. In context after context and contest after contest, we're more than a little conflicted about elders of the tribe; when is it right to honor them, and when to say "step aside"' In his new book, Nicholas Delbanco, one of America's most formidable scholars, tackles the enigma of "lastingness," searching for the answers to the question of why some artists' work diminishes with age, and that of others reaches its peak. Both an intellectual inquiry ino the essence of aging and creativity and a personal journey of discovery, LASTINGNESS is a brilliant exploration of what determines what one needs to do to keep the habits of creation and achievement alive.

Author : Marc Agronin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459617312
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How We Age written by Marc Agronin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Sherwin Nuland, Marc Agronin writes luminously and unforgettably of life as he sees it as a doctor. His beat is a nursing home in Miami that some would dismiss as ''God's waiting room.'' Nothing in the young doctor's medical training had quite prepared him for what he was to discover there. As Agronin first learned from ninety-eight-year-old Esther and, later, from countless others, the true scales of aging aren't one-sided - you can't list the problems without also tallying the hopes and promises. Drawing on moving personal experiences and in-depth interviews with pioneers in the field, Agronin conjures a spellbinding look at what aging means today - how our bodies and brains age, and the very way we understand aging.

Author : Joan Chittister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933346335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Years written by Joan Chittister and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the many dimensions of aging and considers the joys of this special stage of life as well as the rewards of being open to new experiences and new relationships.

Author : Noragh Elizabeth Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953990177
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Growing Old written by Noragh Elizabeth Jones and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis Richmond
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592407471
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging as a Spiritual Practice written by Lewis Richmond and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a Buddhist perspective on aging well, with anecdotes of the author's experiences with illness, aging, and transformation, and guided meditations.

Author : Thomas R. Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521447652
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journey of Life written by Thomas R. Cole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey of Life envisions growing up and growing old as a voyage down a river flowing inexorably to the sea. With this image of the human life cycle, the author explores the historical shoreline of later life, charting its cultural forms and sounding their depths. The result is both a cultural history of aging and a contribution to public dialogue about the meaning and significance of later life. The core of the book shows how central texts and images of Northern.

Author : Daniel M. Klein
Publisher : Penguin Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 0143121936
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels with Epicurus written by Daniel M. Klein and published by Penguin Books Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.